Show ABDICATE AND IS IN HIDING DREAM OF WORLD DOMINION ENDS WHEN HUN RULER FLEES COUNTRY armies defeated in the field forced to sue for armistice terms the people rising in revolt wil helm 11 abdicates paris the expected tins lins happened william german emperor and king of prussia has abdicated lie he Is now in rolland where lie he hopes that he may be sate safe from his enemies and escape the punishment that he justly deserves the crown prince has renounced the throne and a regency will be set up this declaration Is made nizile in a decree issued at berlin by the german im aerial chancellor prince maximilian of baden prince maximilian NN will hold office until matters connected with the abdication of the lie emperor are settled and friedrich ebert vice president of the social democratic party will replace him as chancellor during tile the regency thirty years and almost five monter after he ascended the imperial throne Willi william ant hlf hl f armlee defeated in the field forced to sue for terms and the german people rising in revolt gives up his power ife he came into authority with his country at the threshold of an era of peace ind material progress lie he leaves it torn by revolution and suffering from the hardships and aind sacrifices of more than four years of war virtually ruined ernest august duke of brunswick son in law of the emperor also has abdicated and renounced the rights of ills his heir beir with the passing from power of william all the heads of the governments of tile the central powers when they entered the war liae hane died or lot lost their thrones emperor francis joseph and the sultan of turkey died before their countries agreed to allied armistice terms and ferdinand of bulgaria abdicated to be succeeded by his son who gave up the throne when his people rose against him the other european emperor at the beginning of the war nicholas romanoff wits was deposed in march 1917 and murdered in july 1918 the german imperial chancellor prince ilat ma of baden issued the following decree on november 9 the kaiser and klug king has decided to renounce the throne the imperial chancellor will remain I 1 in n office until the situation connected with the abdication ot of the kaiser the renouncing by the german crown prince of the throne of the german eni em pire and of prussia and the setting up of a regency have been settled for the regency lie he intends to appoint deputy ebert as imperial chancellor and he proposes that a bill shall be brought in for the establishment of a law providing tor for the immediate promulgation mul gation of general suffrage and for a constitutional constitution alGerman german national assembly which will settle finally the future form of government of the german nation and of those people which might be desirous of coming within the empire |